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When you are looking at the potential of losing TB's of data it's money well spent. I ponied up some extra money to set my FreeNAS box at home up with a pool of
by snuxoll 10y ago
When you are looking at the potential of losing TB's of data it's money well spent. I ponied up some extra money to set my FreeNAS box at home up with a pool of mirrored devices because I care about my data - if you don't then feel free to save the money. (One of these days I'm going to pony up for a LTO drive to do a monthly backup and drop it in a safe deposit box, one ~$115 LTO-7 tape is enough to backup my entire storage array).
- sigstoat 10y ago> One of these days I'm going to pony up for a LTO drive to do a monthly backup and drop it in a safe deposit box, one ~$115 LTO-7 tape is enough to backup my entire storage array the cost of the LTO-7 drive would buy you an eSATA dock and a decent pile of 8TB SMR drives, which you could just write the zfs dump to linearly.
- Alupis 10y agoData stored on tapes is a lot more stable than data on spinning disks, even when sitting on a shelf. I certainly would not replace a tape backup with spinning disk backups - rather, I would use the disks for routine backups and tapes for quarterly archives or similar. Although, for some of our systems, we use rotated tapes nightly. There's a good reason so many folks still use tapes for important systems.
- CyberDildonics 10y agoRAID and smaller disks doesn't somehow change the dynamic of $/TB.
- snuxoll 10y agoIt does, unless you're only factoring in the cost of the drives themselves and not: 1. The power to run them, and the additional cooling and acoustic concerns as a result 2. The cost of extra storage enclosures to support them 3. The additional space used by the smaller drives (do you want 2U of 12x8TB drives, or 4U of 24x4TB drives).